Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1976-82 - Comparative History, Modern Europe/Britain
A.B., Magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1971-75 - History, Modern Europe 

Courses taught:
 
“History of the Senses in England and France”
“London: From ‘Great Wen’ to World City”
“Poverty and the Social Order in Europe”
“Intro to European History: Renaissance to French Revolution”
“European Women in the Age of Revolution”
“The City in Europe”
"Edible Conflicts: A History of Food"
“Money, Markets and Morals in Britain, 1500-1800” (graduate colloquium)
“Britain in the Industrial Age”
“Women, Class and Culture in European History”

Academic and Professional Honors:

Barnard Faculty Research Grant, March, 2004
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, January – June, 2002
Fellow, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, February, 2002; also named
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow for 2001- 2002 at the YCBA
Fellow, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, 1998-
          1999
Honorable Mention, North American Conference on British Studies/British Council
          Book Award, 1996
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1991-92
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1991-92
Research Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1984-90
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1984-85
American Association of University Women Fellow­ship, 1980-81
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to London, England, 1978-79

Books:

          The Social Life of Money in the English Past, Cambridge University
Press, 2007.
          The First Industrial Woman, Oxford University Press, 1995.
          Prophetic Sons and Daughters:  Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England, Princeton University Press, 1985.

Journal articles:

           “Is Marxism Still a Useful Tool of Analysis for the History of British Women?” in Contentions:  Debates in Society, Culture, and Science, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Spring 1995); also reprinted in Debating Gender, Debating Sexuality, ed. Nikki R. Keddie, (New York University Press, 1996), pp. 181-92.
          “The Art of Women and the Business of Men: Women's Work and the Dairy Industry, c. 1740-1840,” Past and Present 130 (February, 1991), pp. 142-69; reprinted in Mary A. Yeager, ed., Women in Business, 3 vols. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999).
          “Mutuality and Marginality:  Liberal Moral Theory and Women in Nineteenth-Century England,” (with Ruth L. Smith), Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, (Winter, 1988), pp. 277-98.
          “Prophecy and Popular Literature in Eighteenth-century England,” Journal of Ecclesi­astical History 29 (1978), pp. 75‑92.

Contributions to Books and Other Works:

          “Gender in the Formation of European Power, 1750-1914,” in A Companion to Gender History, ed. Teresa A. Meade and Merry Wiesner- Hanks (Oxford:  Blackwell, 2004), pp.  459-476.
          “Dairy Farming” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (Oxford University Press, 2003), 2: 62-5.
          “Custom, Charity, and Humanity:  Attitudes towards the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England,” in Revival and Religion:  Essays presented to John Walsh (Hambledon Press, 1993), pp.  59-78.
          “Cottage Religion and the Politics of Survival,” Equal or Different?  Women's Politics in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Jane Rendall, Blackwell, 1987, pp. 31-56.
          “Pilgrims and Progress in Nineteenth-century England,” Culture, Ideology and Politics: Essays in Honour of Eric Hobsbawm, ed. Raphael Samuel and Gareth Stedman Jones, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983, pp. 113‑26.